A 26-year-old man was taken into custody after he and his 2-year-old daughter were shot during a domestic dispute this morning in a west Savannah apartment.

Dominique Ford of Garden City was treated at Memorial University Medical Center along with De’Kiiyah Roper after West Chatham Precinct Officers found him walking away from the scene with the child. Neither wound was life-threatening.

Savannah-Chatham police were called to the Westlake Apartments about 11:45 a.m. to reports of a shooting of a man and a child. They found that Ford had climbed out of a window with the child and was walking through a wooded area with the child. He was charged with aggravated assault

Violent Crimes detectives determine Ford had entered the residence to retrieve the gun and a struggle ensued between him and Dennaysha Roper, 21, the child’s mother and resident of the apartment. She was able to get the gun away from him and fired once, striking him, but he then picked up the child before she fired again.

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Saw the news where this lowlife used the child as a shield lets make this scum an example by hanging him in one of the squares!A real father would step in front of the bullet for his child and any man who would not does not need to be on this earth.

but seriously people, are we surprised? I mean really? it's low income housing for goodness sake! and we are in savannah! not only should half of these thugs be sterilized BEFORE the ability to "father and mother" ( and I use those terms extremely loosely! ) ...but cut them a break, they were probably both getting ready to go to work and earn an honest days pay!

All the posts are bad-mouthing the father for using the child as a shield? What about the mother - she fired a gun in the direction of her daughter! Maybe the father was removing the child because he feared for her life and was trying to protect her. I wouldn't be too quick to pass judgement here.

That was my first thought as well. Mom shoots at Dad, Dad fears for his life & the life of his kid, grabs kid and jumps out the window to get away but Mom pulls the trigger again and hits kid this time.... I won't be too surprised if I'm wrong, though. -smdh-

I also won't be surprised if we find out the gun belonged to Dad to begin with and he was trying to get it back & Mom didn't want him to have it. I tried looking Dad up on the arrest records.... didn't find any for him except the one today.

"...Ford entered the residence to retrieve the gun and a struggle ensued between him and Dennaysha Roper, 21, the child’s mother and resident of the apartment. She was able to get the gun away from him and fired once, striking him, but he then picked up the child before she fired again."

So Ms. Roper shot her boyfriend and her toddler (!!!), but only the boyfriend gets arrested? Why not her?

You may not have picked up on the sarcasm ....That's EXACTLY why they were going after Mr. Joyner. I TOTALLY agree w/ you. ( thus... the no skin comment ) After re-reading, my punctuation and word choice could have been better. Have a nice day Yall !